1. Thor: Love and Thunder: on Labor Day, I went to see a movie for the first time since December 2019!! We went to see Taika Watiti’s second Thor movie, which wasn’t as great as Thor: Ragnarok (my favorite Marvel movie). But it was still a lot of fun—the perfect choice for going back to the theater. Marvel movies are definitely best seen on the big screen, so I’m very happy that I finally returned (with mask firmly on…I still mask indoors).
1. Starbucks Fall Items Have Arrived: this year, Starbucks released the good stuff on August 30. I went bright and early on August 31 to get my first Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew of the season. If memory serves, this was a new beverage last year. I’m happy it’s back because I love it! (I also love their pumpkin cream cheese muffin and pumpkin scone.) Don’t worry, I’ll get a Basic Bitch PSL sometime soon too. 🙂
September is here and I could not be more thrilled. I’m SO over summer and am impatiently waiting for cooler weather. You know one thing that was great about August, though? Starbucks released their fall offerings this week! So I picked up my first Pumpkin Cream Cold Brew of the year yesterday morning. The arrival of PSLs means fall weather is imminent…
Anyway, I had quite an array of August empties!
1. Local Hiking: since we returned from Comic-Con, we’ve been making it a point to do an activity together each weekend. At the end of July, we went to an area in Maryland with a trail that we’ve hiked before. This time, we tried a different trail. It’s not the most exciting hike ever, and we went for longer than I expected (5.5 miles!). But afterward we stopped at a nearby Starbucks so I could get a treat. 🙂
Prior to leaving for SDCC, I learned that some stores had already started putting Halloween items out on their shelves. Is mid-July REALLY early for Halloween? Yup. Did I still want to go hunting for Halloween stuff when I returned from San Diego? I sure did.
Last fall, when I wasn’t yet comfortable shopping in person due to the pandemic, I got sucked in to watching Halloween hunting videos on YouTube. Halloween fans go to stores like HomeGoods, Marshalls, Target, and Michaels, and they film the Halloween goodies that they find. Of course, they also film their Halloween hauls.
Now that I’m okay with in-person shopping (masked, obvi), I decided to hit up HomeGoods and Michaels last week to see what sorts of Halloween things were there. I didn’t film anything in the stores, but I bought enough items that I decided to make a Haul-o-Ween video:
July was quite a month for me! My first time back at San Diego Comic-Con was a whirlwind. Because I was traveling for a week I packed some minis rather than my full skin care routine. So I didn’t empty a ton of products last month, but I did manage to get through a decent number of items.
San Diego Comic-Con 2022 is now already a week in the rearview mirror. I can’t believe it’s already over, but we have SDCC 2023 to look forward to! In case you missed my recap, you can check it out here.
I did something new this year: I filmed a YouTube video of my SDCC haul! I came home with so much fun stuff that I thought I might as well make a show and tell video in addition to writing about it. Presenting my first SDCC haul video:
I can’t believe my twelfth San Diego Comic-Con has already come and gone. It was so incredible to return to SDCC for the first time since 2019! John and I stayed in San Diego for a full week, so we didn’t return home until this Tuesday afternoon. It’s taken me awhile to gather my thoughts and pick out photos for this recap. I’ll keep it as brief as possible and keep the non-con stuff to a minimum. 🙂
1. The Boys Season 3: I’ve discussed my love for this show before. I was even more excited for the third season due to the addition of Jensen Ackles, of Supernatural fame, as Soldier Boy. Season three did not disappoint, and of course ramped the insanity and vulgarity up to new highs (or lows, as it were). This subversive satire does shit that no one else is doing on TV, and I love it for that. It was so fun to see Jensen back on my screen, doing things that never would have graced our screens on a CW series. This show has been renewed for season four, and I can’t wait.
The first in-person San Diego Comic-Con since COVID hit returns in one week! This year will mark my twelfth year of attendance, so I’ve gathered some advice based on my own experience. That said, no one has any experience attending SDCC during a pandemic, so we’ll just have to see how it goes.
VERY long post ahead, nerds!
